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Valkyrie's take on Nazis is so Hollywood

22.01.09

Tom Cruise is convincing as a would-be assassin but why gloss over the full horror of the Führer’s regime in Valkyrie?... more

Terror and glamour in The Baader Meinhof Complex

13.11.08

An account of the German student militants who became cult heroes, in The Baader Meinhof Complex, delivers a lesson for today.... more

Euro-satire with no real vision

10.09.08

Eurobeat's clap-along audience kept succumbing to flag-waving ecstasy, revelled in light shows and remained stuck on a jubilant high.... more

Wyndham Lewis was Poet Painter

29.08.08

Had Wyndham Lewis left writing alone and concentrated on his art, he could have become one of the most influential artists this country has ever produced.... more

Miss Behave is not for the faint hearted

04.08.08

Three cautious cheers then for the Roundhouse for staging a month-long variety show, which is very much at the fetish end of the scale.... more

Hadrian and the hordes

25.07.08

The British Museum's survey of the Roman emperor's life contains some sublime artefacts. What a pity the show will be too crowded to see everything ... more

Hell is first great work of the 21st century

06.06.08

The Chapman Brothers have done it again – their new Hell is even better than the first, says Brian Sewell.... more

Czech bounces back

08.05.08

There are some marvellously funny moments in I served the King of England, often tied to Jiri Menzel's passion for the beauty of women.... more

Classic cast to die for

10.01.08

Hitchcock's classic, The Lady Vanishes, is remembered principally for the endearing performances of a cast to die for.... more

Finger on the pulse

07.01.08

Until Mark Bolland went to Sagar, he never realised how versatile a lentil could be.... more

Magical alternative to panto

07.01.08

If panto's not your thing, but you're looking for a post-Christmas show for the kids, Liz Hoggard recommends the hit musical Wicked.... more

Still Frisch and incendiary

07.11.07

Max Frisch's The Arsonists is a thrilling classic but in this lethargic production the play never really catches fire, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

A long, cool look at genocide

02.11.07

The Investigation achieves a chilling, contemporary resonance, providing a gruelling but unforgettable experience of genocide.... more

Mocking a metamorphosis

28.09.07

Absurd and hilarious, black comedy Rhinocerous is an accomplished British send-up of Gallic pomposity and pedantry.... more

From surrealism to savagery

13.09.07

An exhibition on the Art of Lee Miller, offers an original, satisfying shape to a life which the artist said resembled "a water-soaked jigsaw".... more

Razor sharp Ricky back on target

04.09.07

Ricky Gervais is hardly the finest comedian ever to tread the boards, but he is undoubtedly special, says Bruce Dessau.... more

'It was shockingly, gloriously awful'

22.08.07

As Michael Ball prepares for his first Prom, he reveals the full story of his role in English National Opera's biggest critical flop in years.... more

Capturing the 20th century

29.06.07

This Alfred Eisenstaedt exhibition acheives the wonderful feat of summing up the entire history of the 20th Century using just 36 images.... more

Blair's an easy target

07.06.07

Taking Liberties claims the Tony Blair government has eroded so many of people's liberties things may never be the same again... more

Put this soulless adaption out of its misery

11.05.07

Adaptors Tom Morris and Emma Rice have torn the heart, soul and magic from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's famous 1946 fantasy film A Matter Of Life And Death.... more

Struggling to Break Out!

23.04.07

Break Out!, the latest offering from the Korean Ye-Gam Theatre, needs a huge amount of work to match its previous effort, the martial arts, hip-hop laugh-athon Jump.... more

Work of pioneering photographer showcased

23.04.07

The Victoria & Albert Museum has announced an exhibition on the New York-born photographer Lee Miller, 30 years after her death.... more

National Gallery painting 'looted by the Nazis'

29.03.07

A Renaissance masterpiece hanging in the National Gallery may have been looted by the Nazis.... more

Fake notes, French jokes and a funny Hitler

15.02.07

Derek Malcolm takes a look at the films which have been making headlines this week at the Berlin Film Festival.... more

Debo swans into the pub trade at 86

31.01.07

The Swan Inn, the country's most unlikely themed pub, has opened in Swinbrook and its owner is the indefatigable Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, last of the Mitford sisters.... more

Bent casts new light on man's savagery

06.10.06

Nicholas de Jongh finds the revival of Bent as horrific as its 1979 premiere. And the tale of gay persecution in Nazi death camps remains relevant, he says.... more

Democracy spawning fascism? Not again...

05.09.06

If you want to get people talking about you, swastika armbands and a crude company name are good ways to start, but Theatre De C**t's shock tactics ultimately let it down.... more

Blair takes the rap

04.09.06

Tony Blair wears a swastika band and takes advice from Hitler in Theatre De C***'s subversion of racial and social politics.... more

The sweet smell of success

01.09.06

It has taken 20 years to bring the 'unfilmable' bestseller Perfume to the screen. The Standard has had an exclusive preview and here we tell the intriguing story of how it was made.... more

Faithless reward the faithful thousands

21.08.06

Morrissey was only a qualified success as he closed the 10th V Festival despite belting out a few classics from The Smiths. The night really belonged to Faithless, says Chris Elwell-Sutton.... more